Wednesday, February 15, 2017

After eight years of Obama calling only on lap-dog liberal
and ultra-liberal media outlets, after his actually trying to exclude Fox News
from the White House Press Corps, and after his repeated bashing of private
citizen Rush Limbaugh by name, and then after the mainstream liberal media’s continual
smearing of Trump with Fake News such as, for example, that he was a frequenter
of Russian prostitutes and is the incarnation of Hitler, the left-wing media is now cataplectic that at press
conferences Trump is calling on non-left-wing news and commentary media
outlets!

How dare Trump not call exclusively on left-wing media
outlets! The end of the First Amendment! cries one pseudo-journalist, who
displays his pathetic ignorance of what the First Amendment actually means.

The days of just three liberal national TV news networks and
the New York Times filtering their way all the news Americans would see are
long over, and it’s about time. Their
monopoly on the news is over.

Looking back, the left-wing media’s infatuation and “slobbering
love affair” with Obama was so bad that books have been written about it, and we were spurred to mock it in this post:

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Ever since the election of Donald Trump, the conventional
wisdom among the liberal punditry is that his election was a stunning “surprise”
that hardly anyone saw coming. Those
experts were shocked by Trump’s strength among blue collar voters, who swung
the election his way. It was a close
election in many critical states, to be sure, but Trump’s strength not only among
blue collar workers but also among blacks and Hispanics was no surprise to
anyone paying attention without political blinders on.

In January, 2016, the Republican response to Obama’s State
of the Union speech focused neither on Republican proposals nor on Democrat missteps
but rather on stopping Trump. At that
point he was the early frontrunner in the Republican nomination
process. Trump’s anti-illegal-immigration
stance was extremely threatening to the established elites of both parties,
including Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House. In response to the Republican elite’s
anti-Trump barrage, on January 14, 2016, almost 10 months before the election, I posted this comment on this blog:

Open borders to basically any and
all immigrants, a point we seem to be halfway to already, would for generations
depress wages, already stagnant, for low- and medium-skilled workers in the
United States. Trump’s opposition to
open borders and calls for tighter controls on immigration explains his strong
support among blue collar workers, traditionally Democrats, even among blacks
and Hispanics who understand the deleterious impact more immigration will have
on their jobs and wages. The
Democrats want open borders to gain more Democrat voters, and they figure the
workers who support them blindly will stay blind. The Republican party elites, funded by
business interests, want open borders to access a bottomless cup of cheap
labor. The American workers get
screwed and they’re rightfully “angry” about that. Those “Reagan Democrats” who now see clearly
what's going on want to return to the Republican Party, but Paul Ryan and the
elites of Republican Party don’t want them.
They’d rather have Hillary Clinton, corrupt to the bone, with open
borders and cheap labor. Republican
elites would be happy to “pay to play” with Hillary – they think they can make
a lot of money with her and her crowd; with Donald Trump and the “angry voices”
of his supporters, not so much.

Trump’s electoral strength should not have come as a
surprise to anyone in touch with America.
It only took open eyes to notice and open ears to listen to the people
struggling from the effects of open borders that have flooded this country with
cheap labor and from the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage foreign countries.

Thursday, February 2, 2017

The latest dust-up over the fate of a group of illegal
migrants stranded in New Guinea living on Australian charity encapsulates the great challenge
the Western world faces from migrants dissatisfied with their own countries who
arrive as low-skilled, welfare-dependent, and often culturally-hostile uninvited guests.

In the waning days of his presidency, after Trump was
elected, Obama agreed to take a thousand or two Muslim migrants off Australia’s
hands and bring them to the United States.
This arrangement has now come to the attention of President Trump, and he
and probably most Americans are unclear why the United States, having in recent
years already taken in more migrants than most any other country in the world, should take in still more, let alone those in Asia who are currently on
an island near Muslim Indonesia. The Australian
government doesn’t want them but is stuck caring for them, so it was delighted
that Obama, on his way out of office, offered them free tickets to the United
States. It’s no surprise that Trump, elected
as much as anything else on his promise to tighten immigration and seal our porous
borders, looks askance at this.
Australia knew full well not only that Obama was a lame duck when he agreed
to take these migrants but also that this hushed-up transfer would be very
unpopular with most Americans, so no tears for our friends down under.

The big-picture point here is that every person in the world
disenchanted with his or her current country cannot migrate to the United
States. The United States simply does
not have enough space or resources to care for everyone in the world who would
like to come here. The rest of the world
must be made a better place in which to live, and although the United States undoubtedly will
continue to help others toward that goal, as it most generously has in blood
and treasure for over a hundred years, it is not capable of, nor morally responsible
for, ensuring that all other
countries of the world are acceptable places in which to live.